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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






2. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






3. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






4. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






5. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






6. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






7. Transit of Venus on June 9.






8. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






9. Transit of Mercury.






10. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






11. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






12. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






13. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






14. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






15. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






16. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






17. Triple conjunction Mars






18. Mercury occults Neptune.






19. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






20. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






21. December 10






22. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






23. Triple conjunction Mars






24. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






25. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






26. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






27. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






28. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






29. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






30. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






31. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






32. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






33. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






34. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






35. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






36. Transit of Venus.






37. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






38. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






39. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






40. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






41. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






42. Transit of Venus on June 11.






43. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






44. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






45. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






46. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






47. March 17






48. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






49. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






50. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.